The Seven Deadly Sins of Programmers
A while back, I made an offhand comment about something being one of the seven deadly sins of programmers (/programming/developers/software engineering/coding/…).
At the time, I really didn’t have 7 things in mind, but after a little thought, I came up with what I think is a good list.
But before I write the first entry, I’d like you to spend 5 minutes and write down your list of deadly programmer sins. Though 7 is the canonical number of sins, your list can have any number of items. After I’ve gone through my list, I’ll do another post where you can share your list.
[Update: Sorry I wasn’t clearer. Write your list down, and then post it when I’m finished. Or post it now on your own blog if you’d like]
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Premature optimization
Trusting external data (user input in particular)
Overengineering
Carelessness/hackiness
Absence of testing
Absence of documentation
Anti-test-driven development (developing huge chunks of functionality and only testing in the end)
Introduction
Recently, Eric Gunnerson made a post
in his blog with the idea of "the seven…
Frans  blogged about Jon Skeet’s which was inspired by Eric’s post. Since Eric is asking…
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